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fuke
[? var. of F fusil gun, musket Ital. L focus]
Fur Trade, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a light flintlock musket important as trading goods in the early fur trade.
Quotations
1933
The South Piegans were well armed with repeating rifles. . . while the Crees and Assiniboines had had only old muskets Hudson's Bay "fukes" and bowls and arrows to depend on.
1955
A gun, or fuke in Hudson's Bay trading, might [c1865] be worth fifteen skins while a blanket would fetch ten.
1956
. . . the North West gun and the earlier Hudson's Bay fuke or fusil were essentially the same weapon.